Richard Serra | Rotterdam Horizontal 5 | 2016

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The steel and the space, or the object and the void, become one and the same.

— Richard Serra

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If the doors of perception were cleansed, then everything would appear to man as it is — infinite.

— William Blake

Richard Serra | Double Elliptic Torsion | 1998

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/// I exist outside of your perception of me.

The past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

— Virginia Woolf

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Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

— Mae Jemison

I am trying to walk into my own heart.

— Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick

Klärung des Kampfbildes in Kürze zu erwarten.

Sad are only those who understand.

— Arab Proverb

On the set of Stalker; dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1979

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You see, the artist lives by perception. So that what we make, is what we feel. The making of something is not just construction. it's all about feeling.

— Agnes Martin

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Art is not always about pretty things. It's about who we are, what happened to us, and how our lives are affected.

— Elizabeth Broun

I am stronger than myself.

— Clarice Lispector

Ich muss Sie jetzt noch mal bitten, dass Sie endlich zum Thema reden. [...] Ich mag das nicht, das muss ich Ihnen offen sagen. Das ist einfach unangenehm. [...] Das ist ein Ruf zur Tagesordnung. [...] Wenn Sie solche drittklassigen Figuren hier einladen, ist einfach alles vorbei, verstehen Sie? Ich bin unverschämt, weil Sie so niveaulos sind, dass es eine Zumutung ist, in Ihrer Gesellschaft über irgendetwas zu diskutieren, was ein intellektuelles Profil erreicht. Ich habe hier, solange Sie da sind, nichts verloren. Das ist einfach eine Unterbietung des guten Geschmacks und jeglichen Anstandes, in Hinsicht auf Artikulation und in Hinblick auf intellektuelle Selbstachtung [...].

— Peter Sloterdijk

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I've learned, sometimes in very difficult situations, to operate confidently in paradox.

— J. Michael Martinez

[Bangs; as always.]

Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Metropolis Ruhr vs. True Korea

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

— Marc Aurel

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The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

— Rabindranath Tagore

To create reality, focus beyond the outcome, as if it has already happened.

― Gregg Braden

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The truth is scandalous. But without it, nothing has any worth. […] As you approach the truth, your solitude will increase.

— Michel Houllebecq

Awareness in itself is healing.

— Fritz Perls

From True Korea; with love ...

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I don't wish power. Only art, art and passion.

— Anaïs Nin

Sára Saudková | Hommage to Ch. Bukowski #1 | 2013

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Silence is the language of all the strong passions, of love, of anger, of wonder, of fear.

— Giacomo Leopardi

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Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

[Feel the Juche; thank.]

Ich diskutiere nicht, weil ich vorher nachdenke.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Those social networks, there's something sad about them. It's like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Die Leute denken zu viel. Und sie nehmen sich zu ernst. Ich lebe ohne Plan. Meine größte Entdeckung war zu verstehen, dass ich nichts tun muss: Alles, was ich tun muss, ist zuzulassen, dass die Dinge passieren können. [...] Sich selbst ernst zu nehmen, sei es in der Kunst oder im Leben, ist unsinnig. Kunst oder Leben ohne Humor ist nicht lebenswert.

— Jonas Mekas

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I know there is no straight road. No straight road in this world. Only a giant labyrinth of intersecting crossroads.

— Federico García Lorca

Vielleicht hat Gott mich zu einem Maler für Menschen
gemacht, die noch nicht geboren sind.

You know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love of which I am capable.

— Charlotte Brontë

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Villa Tugendhat, Detail | 1929/30

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A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

— Patrick Geddes

/// A beautiful thing is never perfect.